Near Mechanicksville Md

fifteen miles from Gettysburg

in an old Barn. July 9. /63

 

My Dear Wife.

                        The Army is now on another move and a hard one we left the Battle field the day before yesterday and come on same road we went last Whensday a week ago. went into camp on the ground where we were mustered for pay. our Regt was sent on picket that night got in next morning at daylight I had no sleep and in fact since the first of this month we have had the hardest kind of times worse than / before. I thought when we go into Penn^a we would live well, but it so turned out that we we could not. And now we are on our way to Frederick Md about 14 miles from here. yesterday I got sick on the march and stoped here with a farmer and here I am yet in his barn two of us. we will stay all night. it now raining fast. we expect another great Battle soon. about south Mountain or Antietam (Old Battle Ground) if it was not for the looks of the thing I would start and come home and wait till I got better but I will stick to it but before I go into Va. again I am coming / home if I live. you should like to see the Army now we are rough and dirty, but not so bad as there army is. I will not write much now I wrote three letters and could not send them till yesterday. this may three days before it gets off. The Rebs have done great harm in this country. stold horses and pressed a great many young men into there Army. when is this war to be over. I sometimes think never while a man lives that is now in the Army. I must stop so farewell And may God Bless us all.

                                                           

I Am yours Truly

J Gregg /

 

you will excuse this this as I scratch it off in a hurry on a sheet Reble paper.

            no more

                                                                       

John Gregg

 

All of these things come out of dead Rebles pockets.

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